Ruth: KWAME KILPATRICK AND BOBBY FERGUSON HAUNTING DETROIT'S BANKRUPTCY CASE TODAY. Devin: MACOMB COUNTY IS ACCUSING DETROIT OF FRAUD AND WANTS MORE THAN $25 MILLION. WHAT'S THAT ALL ABOUT? LET'S GET ANSWERS FROM OUR BUSINESS EDITOR ROD MELONI WHO IS LIVE DOWNTOWN. Rod: IT DATES BACK TEN YEARS. YOU MAY REMEMBER THE GIANT BIG DIG, THE SINKHOLE UP AT 15 MILE AND STERLING HEIGHTS, WHERE BOBBY FERGUSON WAS SENT IN TO CLEAN UP THE MESS. IT WAS PART OF THEIR CONVICTION. MACOMB COUNTY SAYS IT WAS DEFRAUDED, WANTS ITS MONEY AND IS IN BANKRUPTCY COURT TRYING TO GET IT. THIS IS WHAT THE GIANT SINKHOLE LOOKED LIKE FROM SKY4. IT TOOK TWO TWO WEEKS TO GET IT STOPPED AND MONTHS TO CLEAN IT UP. KWAME KILPATRICK AND BOBBY FERGUSON WENT TO JAIL FOR THEIR FRAUD. MACOMB COUNTY SAID IT WAS DEFRAUDED OUT OF MORE THAN $26 MILLION. VICTOR MERCADO WAS PUT INTO A HALFWAY HOUSE IN FLORIDA FOR HIS PART AND GUILTY PLEA. MACOMB COUNTY SUED DETROIT IN 2011 AND THE CASE WAS STILL OPEN WHEN DETROIT FILED FOR BANKRUPTCY. THE JUDGE WAS ASKED TO HAVE THE CITY PAY IT FOR ITS ESTIMATED $26 MILLION. ATTORNEY WILLIAMS SAID: Rod: ATTORNEY GENERAL JEROME WATSON PLED DETROIT'S CASE AND SAID THERE WAS NOTHING EVEN RESEMBLING FRAUD, BUT THE JUDGE DID POINT OUT THE CITY ADMITTED OVERCHARGES. . Rod: THERE IS NOTHING SIMPLE IN MUNICIPAL BANKRUPTCY, AND IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, THERE'S THIS THING CALLED WAITING. THE JUDGE CAN GIVE THIS CASE THE WEIGHT OF A DOLLAR OR $26 MILLION, BUT THEN IT HAS TO BE JUDGED BY THE NUMBER OF VOTES THEY GET IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE. IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE MACOMB COUNTY IS GONNA GET THE FULL $26 MILLION, BUT WE'LL HAVE TO SEE WHERE IT GOES. Devin: THAT'S THE WEIGHT, BUT HOW ABOUT THE WAIT FROM THE JUDGE? Rod: WE HAVE TO GO FOUR DAYS, MONDAY, WHEN THE JUDGE COMES IN WITH THE DECISION ON THIS. MORE THAN THAT, THE NUMBER OF VOTES AND HOW THAT WENT. THAT'S THE LARGEST PICTURE. Rod: WE'RE TOLD THIS NUMBER, THE $26 MILLION COULD SWING THE WAITING IN ALL OF THIS. IT WILL MATTER AND MOVE THE NEEDLE. Devin: ROD MELONI REPORTING FOR US FROM DOWNTOWN DETROIT.

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